Questions tagged [terminology]

For questions concerning proper naming of events, activities, practices, or tools used in SQA. Using a proper terminology helps team collaboration and hence improves the overall quality of a Product.

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What is the difference between SLA (Service Level Agreement) and SLO (Service Level Objective)?

What exactly is an SLO? How does it differ from SLA? From a performance testing point of view, how should these terms be used?
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Is there an industry standard or good practices for the code review activity?

An SDLC explains how an item of software can be defined, modeled, developed, tested, released and supported. The SDLC is split into any number of phases, depending on the methodology used (Waterfall, ...
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What is the difference between feature testing and functionality testing

Recently I happened to be in an interview where I was asked to explain feature testing and functional testing. Even after looking up so many references I am unable to find a convincing explanation ‒ ...
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What is Functional Show Stopper in Bug Tracking?

Functional Show Stopper comes as one parameter of 'Priority'. I know Show Stopper.. but what is Functional Show Stopper ? What kind of issues can be categorized under this ?
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Bugs Verified or Bugs Validated?

Which sentence is correct. Defects have been fixed and tested by QA. No issues found furthermore. So, what should QA has to write? Defect XXX has been verified. No issues found.OR Defect XXX has ...
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What is this methodology called?

We have got an old system Qwerty1 - that makes a lots of things, We also have another system Querty2 it's actually a remake of Qwerty1 (for several reasons) Notice we still are live with Qwerty1. Now ...
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what is difference between Test Cases and Test Scripts?

I know that test cases are written in human readable language, whereas test scripts are written in code and mostly done for automated testing. But can anyone tell me what else make them different ...
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What is meant by the term "Pesticide Paradox" in testing point of view?

All, During an interview with an major MNC , I was asked this curious question of " What is meant by pesticide paradox ? " I have been working as Test Engineer for almost 4 Years but I have never ...
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What's the difference between integration and contract testing of microservices?

Well, integration testing supposed to be the testing of integrated components. Contract testing supposed to be testing of the way components interact with each other (API). But what the main ...
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Test Suite vs. Test Plan

I am having a difficult time pinning down an official description of what a test suite is compared to a test plan. In Test Computer Software they don't even mention suites. (I assume because the book ...
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Pareto Efficiency in Software Testing

I've stumbled upon the Pareto Principle and Pareto Efficiency terms used in different contexts. What does Pareto Efficiency mean in the context of software testing? My understanding is that, it ...
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What is the difference between "testing" and "quality assurance"?

Is there a difference between "testing" and "quality assurance"? If so, what are the main goals of each process? What are the critical differences?
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ISTQB: incidents should be raised when someone other than the author of the software performs the test

I am preparing for the ISTQB Foundation Level Exam by taking this mock test. Consider the following statements i. an incident may be closed without being fixed ii. incidents may not be raised against ...
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What would be a good term for continuous testing post-deployment?

I'm thinking of live production sites here, where there is a continuous community or much content being updated, sort of like a newspaper site or community site (the one I work at is a healthcare ...
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Difference between Corner Case Testing, Boundary Case Testing and Edge Case Testing

Can someone explain difference between Corner Case Testing, Boundary Case Testing and Edge Case Testing with an example.
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What is the difference between automation tests and test automation?

Is there a difference between automated tests and test automation? If so, what are the main goals of the individual tests?
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Confused with "Integration testing", "System testing" and "System integration testing"

I have read similar questions here but it did not help. My understanding is as follows: Integration testing - done by developers, integrating low-level components together System testing - testing ...
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Negative testing - delivering error when it should not?

I am a bit confused as in a few books, negative testing is described as trying to break the system with providing inputs outside the defined group..which I understand and agree with ...and that a ...
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What is an extreme term for Feature creep, Software bloat and Code bloat?

I am looking for a term or principle that describes software or a website that has many: "Features" that are not really features that no end users want or will ever use. "Features&...
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Do we have a terminology for manual test suite that replaces failed automated tests?

Background: 3-week sprint, 2-days testing against staging and 1-day testing against qa. qa environment is only up for the duration of 1 day as it costs a bit money to have it running on AWS. We have ...
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How many test steps are allowed in a single manual test case?

I have been writing Test Cases for half a year as of now. My question is: How many test steps are allowed only in one test case? For example more than 6 steps is not allowed or depends on ...
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Exactly how are BDD, TDD, ATDD, Kanban and Scrum different from a waterfall approach?

I don't understand the differences between the following terms: BDD - Behavior-driven development TDD - Test-driven development ATDD - Acceptance test-driven development Kanban Scrum How do these ...
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Difference between Accessibility Testing and Usability Testing?

Both terms Accessibility Testing and Usability Testing seems similar. Are they both same? Or is there any difference between Accessibility Testing and Usability Testing?
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Difference between test strategy and test plan

I have read several posts on test plan and test strategy. According to them the main difference between these they tell is that test strategy is static in nature while test plan is dynamic and can ...
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Can Test Automation Engineers call themselves Software Developers or Programmers? [closed]

One of my colleague asked me if what I do is a part of software development. He said that can you call yourself a developer or a programmer/coder or someone who is creating/developing test scripts for ...
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Test team names

Has anyone found a name for a software testing team that they think really communicates our role well? Our team is brainstorming ideas right now, and I know this is something my last team struggled ...
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Should Testers be called QA?

At many places, Quality Assurance(QA) is used as a designation/title for Testers. In general, the difference I got between QA and Tester is as below: QA supposed to be more focused on preventing ...
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Real time example for Latent defects and regression defects [closed]

Can anyone explain Latent defects and regression defects With real time examples in the software
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Verification and validation of a requirement spec (following B. Boehm's paper)

The purpose of this question is for me to understand the concept, I am well aware in practice I just do these things, regardless of how I call them. Also, the famous paper from B. Boehm (GUIDELINES ...
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What is the difference between Major and Minor Bug?

I am wondering about these two bug priority during development testing.
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Difference between a testing method and a testing paradigm

I often read the terms "testing method" and "testing paradigm", although they frequently seemed to be used synonymously. This question on Stack Exchange explains the terms in general, but I wonder how ...
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Is unit testing related only to software development?

I have searched for "Unit test" on the internet and I always find that it is a software development topic. If I am not writing code and instead I am designing, for example, a BI dashboard, can I ...
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Which document is used for post deployment and what is its name/content?

Which document is used for post deployment or what is the name of that document. And what things does this document include?
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Difference between "Pilot" Testing and "Beta" Testing?

I was asked this in an interview. I knew about Alpha/Beta release testing , but had no idea about Pilot testing in Software Engineering. Please explain in details with real life examples.
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Difference between standards "correctly implemented" and "followed" - QA vs QC

I have been reading quite an interesting site SQA.net where I stumbled upon the following: When the requirements are produced (in this example) the Software Quality Control team would ensure that ...
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Installation testing is part of functional or non-functional testing?

In your test strategy/testing where would the installation testing (set-up/deployment with or without installer) belong? Is it a part of functional testing or non-functional testing?
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What's the difference between system testing and release testing?

I was going through the types of software testing...Can anyone tell me what exactly are the differences between system testing and release testing?
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What is the difference between integration and interface tests?

I have googled many times but still not understand clearly about interface testing in software testing, who can explain this , many thanks?
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What's the difference between code coverage and test coverage?

At first I though it was the same but with eclemma it seems different. But I can't find anything about it.
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What is the difference between Gold bug and Latent bug?

There are two different bugs, Gold and Latent. Both exists in application from (lets say) Sprint 1. I would be thankful if you could tell me the difference between Gold bug and Latent bug?
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What is the difference between bug and defect?

I am wondering, in software development testing, what is the difference between a bug and a defect?
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Any good references on Privacy Testing?

I heard a reference to Privacy testing recently (James Whittaker mentioned it here.) and it seems like a valuable area to know something about. It's extremely important these days as companies balance ...
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Validate or verify is the correct term? [duplicate]

With my team we are trying to agree on some common terminology, conventions etc. for a new testing scheme. We are mostly done, however we can't agree on whether verify or validate is the better term ...
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How does trust in product compare to trust in quality process?

What factors determine trust in a product compared to trust in the quality process? I have seen reports with ticks and crosses in product trust and quality process columns, but I don't understand what ...
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Is there a name for this type of bug where a bool is overwritten on every iteration of a loop giving an invalid result?

I have found several instances of bugs like this in dusty corners of our automation code base. Fortunately the person responsible for snippets like these has no longer with the company, but I'd like ...
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Looking for Clarity on testing terminology (Collaboration Request)

I need to explain the testing terminology to others because I want everyone to be on the same page; have the same understanding. After continuous study of the testing world for over more than a month, ...
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What is the term to convey the use of black, gray, and white-box testing?

A little bit of context... At my workplace, software test engineers (SWET) have access to source code. That doesn't mean that SWETs must review the source code, but more so have access in case they ...
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Level of testing intrusion and false alarms

I came across this idiom "level of testing intrusion". Its definition is: the greater the number of changes that are required to be made to the system under test specifically for automated testing, ...
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What is the term for testing a system's behavior by comparing it to a system that is known to work correctly?

For example, let's pretend that I want to write a program that encrypts data using a given algorithm. Instead of manually calculating expected outputs and comparing them with actual outputs, I might ...
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What is component testing and how to write component test cases?

I am new to testing. I would like to know: What is component testing? How do I write component test cases? Please explain with examples if possible to make it more helpful for me to understand.